TWO WOMEN.(Look at Me)(The Upside of Anger)(Movie Review)

At its core, "Look at Me" ("Comme une Image"), the wonderful new film by the team of Agnes Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, is a modern-day fairy tale: cruel father, unloved daughter, young stepmother. But the movie is about so many other things as well that one hesitates to describe it in outline. Bacri writes and acts, Jaoui writes, acts, and directs, and together this couple has mastered the art of complex narrative. They have a story to tell, but they go so far into manners, quirks, and undertones that we feel, at the end of their films, that we have understood not just a dramatized anecdote but an entire way of life. Their earlier collaboration, "The Taste of Others" ...